Zainab al-Qolaq, a Palestinian girl who lost 22 family members in the recent Hamas-Israel conflict, launched an art gallery in Gaza City on May 24.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Gaza- 24 May 2022. Zainab al-Qolaq, a Palestinian girl who lost 22 person of her family during an Israeli airstrike of her family house on the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel launches an art gallery, in Gaza city.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Zainab al-Qolaq.
0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Shukri al-Qolaq, father of Zainab.
0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Maha Al Husseini, Director of Strategies at the Euro-Mediterranean Center.

STORYLINE:

Zainab, now 23, lost 22 members of her family, including her mother, her only sister, and two of her brothers, in addition to cousins, uncles and grandparents during the recent conflict between Hamas and Israeli on May 2021.

Zainab and Osama al-Qolaq, and their father Shukri, also fought to stay alive for 12 hours before the paramedics managed to pull them out.

The al-Qolaq family home is located in the residential block on al-Wehda street that was bombed on 16 May. Forty-two Palestinians died in a single night, among them 11 children.

A total of 66 children were among the 256 Palestinians killed during the 11-day-attack.


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